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There was once a time when Pink’s wasn’t the only Hollywood-famous hot dog stand in town. In the late ’40s, a 17-foot-wide by 8-foot-tall hot dog-shaped stand called Tail O’ the Pup sat on La Cienega Boulevard in the Beverly Grove neighborhood just south of West Hollywood. . The stand, built in...read more

The Tail O' The Pup hot dog stand still—perhaps oddly—holds a special place in the hearts of Baby Boomer Angelenos. Designed by Milton Black and erected in 1946, the stand held court for decades on La Cienega across from...

The iconic hot dog-shaped hot dog stand will reopen in a couple months, two blocks from its original location on La Cienega There was a time in Los Angeles history when it was not uncommon to see a building shaped like a tamale, der...

We set out to do what nobody before us has ever done before: try every single hot dog on the menu at Pink's Famous Hot Dogs in Hollywood. For those uninitiated to the Pink's hot dog legacy, the 73-year old stand on the corner of Mel...

Tail O' the Pup via Alan Taylor / Wikimedia Commons A comeback's been in the cards for the recently restored Tail O' the Pup hot dog stand since last fall, when the family of the Pup's long-time proprietor, Eddie...